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Avia II Guide to home theaterJust released, works for SD, ED and HD TVs.
Avia II Contents
TUTORIAL SECTION:
Home Theater Components
Source Components
Video Displays
Surround Sound Components
Accessories
Video Basics
Standard Definition
Enhanced Definition
High Definition
HD Technology
HD Displays
HD Source Components
HD Disc Technology
Audio Basics
Analog and Digital Audio
Stereo and Multichannel Audio
Multichannel Audio Formats
Making the Connection
Video Source Connections
Audio Source Connections
Speaker Connections
The Home Theater Environment
Video Display Placement
Speaker Placement
Room Acoustics
Home Theater Lighting
BASIC SETUP SECTION:
Standard Video Adjustments
Contrast
Brightness
Sharpness
Color and Tint
Red Push
Standard Audio Adjustments
Channel Identification
Phase
Matching Speaker Levels
Using a Sound-level Meter
Adjusting Subwoofer Phase and Level
ADVANCED-USER SECTION:
Advanced Video Test Patterns (all widescreen, each category containing multiple patterns)
Checker Steps
Circle Hatches
Color Bars
Color Fields
Gamma
Gray Fields (every 2.5 IRE from 7.5 to 100 IRE)
Gray Windows (every 2.5 IRE from 2.5 to 107 IRE)
Hatches
High-Monotonicity Steps
Horizontal Sweeps
Levels (contrast and brightness)
Miscellaneous (including checks for banding, bias light,color-upsampling error, projection-set hot spots, overscan, pixel cropping, color-wheel behavior, screen uniformity)
Motion & Moving Zone Plates (tests for system behavior with intermixed progressive/interlaced program material)
Ramps
Resolution and Sharpness
Steps
Vertical Sweeps
Extended Audio Test Tones (all 5.1/6.1-Dolby Digital EX)
Main Speaker Setup
5.1/6.1-Channel Speaker Identification
5/6-Channel Balancing
Individual Channel-balance signals
6.1-Channel speaker-phase tests
Subwoofer Setup (signals provided for four different system crossover frequencies)
Subwoofer Level
Subwoofer Phase
Subwoofer/Satellite Crossover-Response Smoothness
Verification/Evaluation
Circulating Noise Bands
Circulating Ambience Generator Clicks
Speaker Matching
Low-Frequency Extension/Rattle Test (500 Hz to 5 Hz)
Absolute Polarity
Background Noise
Reference Tones
3 minutes of continuous, highly accurate pink noise in each channel
Extensive DVD-ROM documentation (Glossary plus a full-color, 50-page manual on the Advanced Video and Extended Audio signals)
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